Robert Volpe is a veteran cop of 19 years, 10 of those years undercover.

“Today, I pray for those boys. The court took my son away from me when he lost it for 30 seconds in that bathroom.

“He got a year for every one of those seconds. They believed his admission of guilt enough to give him 30 years.

“But then came selective believability when it came to him clearing everyone else. You believe someone and lock him away for 30 years.

“But you don’t believe it when he says he acted alone, even though, he has done something very dramatic.

“He has continually asked the feds to administer a polygraph test to him to see if he is telling the truth.

“What happens? The feds refuse to administer a polygraph test to him. Why, I don’t know. Because they can’t admit they made a mistake in the case of Schwarz, Bruder and Wiese.

“Look, I have worked with the Justice Department and the feds in the past and had a good experience.

“But now we come to the prosecutor Alan Vinegrad, whether it is ego or politics I do not know.

“Vinegrad, who made mockery of truth and justice during this trial, will benefit short term, but not in the long term when the truth comes out.

“On the top of my list of bad guys is Alan Vinegrad. Go administer a lie-detector test now, before in the long term the truth comes out and he will be destroyed.”

Marvyn Kornberg, Volpe’s lawyer, had this to say: “We offered lie-detector tests, before sentencing, during sentencing and after sentencing. So far, the offer has not been picked up, I don’t know why.”

Neither does the father.

“My son did one year and six weeks in solitary confinement,” Robert Volpe was saying. “He could not have done that unless he was at peace with himself and God.

“He was suffering from combat fatigue that night. He started out as a hero by saving a man’s life, then he became a victim as he was assaulted and then he became a criminal all within an hour.

“I have no excuse and he has no excuse. I think 30 years in jail talks to that.

“You know he was like the fabled Marine who threw himself on the grenade to save others and when he did that, Alan Vinegrad kept on throwing grenades at Chuck Schwarz, Tommy Bruder and Tommy Wiese.

“There was no blue wall of silence here. I mean he is getting 30 years, why would he lie about the other three cops and get another 10 years tacked on for perjury?

“No, Alan Vinegrad for ambition, bias or ego wanted to indict the entire Police Department. Let’s see how his career goes after this, particularly when the truth comes out.”

While it has be said, of course, Abner Louima, was a victim of something terrible, how do prosecutors account for the perjuries admitted and the fact that Abner Louima changed his story five times.

There will be scholars who will write books about this. There will be stories written for law journals.

Then, Vinegrad and Nickerson will be judged by their peers.

It will not be pretty.

Oh yes, in the end they will get theirs. Too bad three innocent cops will have to rot in jail until some appeals court makes sense of this madness.